Grosvenor Prints

L'Amerique.
Dessine par Vauthier. Terminé par Bertrand.
A Paris et a Ausbourg chez Tessari et C.ie. Depose a la Direction. [n.d. c.1820]
Stipple, sheet 390 x 275mm (15½ x 10¾"). Trimmed to plate left and right. Small margin at bottom.
An early form of the allegorical figure representing "America". A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young Native American woman. She wears a fabric robe with left breast exposed, a feathered headdress with beaded braids, and feathered armbands.
[Ref: 61497] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Habits of the Americans. Plate 224. Vol. 2, page 541.
[London: Richard Baldwin, 1759.]
Engraving, 18th century watermark. 315 x 205mm (12¼ x 8") very large margins.
Two Native Americans, based on John White's Virginians.
[Ref: 61377] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Sir Jeffery Amherst, Knight of the Most honorable Order of the Bath, Governor of Virginia...]
J. Reynolds pinxt. J. Watson fecit. 1766.
[Sold by Ryland and Bryer, at the Kings Arms, in Cornhill.] [n.d., 1766.]
Mezzotint, scratched letter proof before title and publication line, inscription area uncleaned. 455 x 330mm (18 x 13"), with good margins. Framed. Unexamined out of frame.
Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), Field Marshal, wearing star and sash over armour in a landscape; his helmet on plan of Montreal before him. Arms below image. Amherst was responsible for a series of sweeping victories against the French, 1758-60, during the Seven Years War, leading to the conquest of Canada. Commander-in-Chief and Governor of North America, 1761. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-92).
Chaloner Smith: 2. Goodwin: 38 i of v. Hamilton: pg.1.
[Ref: 61619] £780.00

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A General Chart of the Sea Coast of Europe, Africa & America. According to E. Wrights or Mercator's Projection.
By H. Moll Geographer.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraved map. 345 x 285mm (13½ x 11¼"). Original binding folds.
A sea chart centred on the Atlantic Ocean, but also showing all of South America, Africa and the Black Sea. Of interest in the mythical Peypys Island off South America. From Josiah Burchett's 'A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Account... to the Conclusion of the Last War with France''. Edward Wright (1561-1615), a mathmatician and surveyor, not only corrected Mercator's Projection but also published a guide explaining how to use charts using that projection, something that Gerhard Mercator had never done. His work gave British navigators a particular advantage over the competition.
[Ref: 61702] £250.00

[Bothians] Kawalua. Tiagashu. Adlurak.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼")
Three native Canadians. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61718] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bothians] Shulanina. Tulluachiu, & Tirikshiu.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph, with hand colour. Sheet 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼") Names slightly faded.
Three native Canadians, one with a peg leg An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61716] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Bothians] Kunana.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼")
A native Canadian holding a knife and the skin of something An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61715] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Bothians] Poyettak. Kakikagiu. Anknalua.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼")
Three native Canadians. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61714] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Bothians] Udlia. Awitigin. Palurak.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph, with hand colour. Sheet 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼")
Three native Canadians. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61713] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

[Bothians] Ikmalick And Apeagliu.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 185 x 235mm (7¼ x 9¼")
Two native Canadians and three Englishmen sit in a room, presumambly on a boat. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61719] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Hibluna.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6") Trimmed, faint spotting.
A woman from the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, holding up tools. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61409] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Konyaroklick, or Bald Head. Neweetioke.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6") Slight offset from text.
Two men from the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61410] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Alictu and Kanguagiu.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6")
Two men from the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, standing before an igloo. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61412] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Kanayoke.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6")
A man of the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, standing in an icy landscape. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61413] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Manellia. Adelik.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6") Trimmed, one foxing spot bottom centre in image.
Two women from the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, one carrying a child in a backpack. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61408] £95.00 (£114.00 incl.VAT)

Ooblooria. Paningayuke. mingo. Nullingiak.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph. Sheet 150 x 170 mm (6 x 6¾")
A family of the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, seated at a table aboard the 'Victory', John Ross's ship. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61415] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Kemig.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6")
A woman of the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, seated half-naked in an igloo. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61414] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Illictu. Ootoogia.
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross. Printed by Graf & Soret.
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 170 x 150mm (6¾ x 6")
Two men from the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, standing on a beach with the Union flag flying behind. An illustration from the separately-issued appendix to 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' by John Ross (1835). Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the North-West Passage.
See Abbey Travel 536 for the 'Narrative', with appendix mentioned but not listed.
[Ref: 61411] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Dress of the Inhabitants of California with their manners of Rafts for Fishing, &c.
Published by Alex.r Hogg No. 16 Paternoster Row London [n.d., 1778].
Engraving. 295 x 170mm (11½ x 6¾"), very large margins. Crease top margin.
From 'A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels: Containing All that Have Been Remarkable from the Earliest Period to the Present Time', by John Hamilton Moore.
[Ref: 61403] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Captain Christopher Carleill Esquire.
Robert Boissard Sc.
[n.d., c.1600.]
Very scarce engraving, sheet 375 x 295mm (14¾ x 11½"). Trimmed within plate and tipped into album sheet at edges.
Half-length portrait of Christopher Carleill (c. 1551-93), English military and naval commander, step-son of Elizabeth I's spymaster Francis Walsingham. This print celebrates his command of English troops helping defend Steenwijk against the Spanish (1580-1). In 1582 he commanded a convoy of English merchants to Russia when that country was at war with Denmark. In 1584 he was given command of the garrison of Coleraine, County Antrim, but was recalled the following year. In 1585 he was lieutenant-general of the land forces that accompanied Francis Drake on his expedition against Santo Domingo: the expedition plundered Santiago in the Cape Verde Islands, seized Santo Domingo, Cartagena de Indias and St. Augustine. On the return voyage they visited Sir Walter Raleigh's colony at Roanoke, Virginia. In 1588 he was appointed constable of Carrickfergus, County Antrim, then governor of Ulster. The portrait is from a set of English admirals all engraved by Boissard.
NPG D21248. See Ref: 46995 (cut)
[Ref: 61639] £480.00

[Thomas Edison] M.r Edison.
Judd & C.o Lith. Doctors' Commons, London E.C.
The Whitehall Review. 7th February 1880.
Tinted lithograph. Sheet 365 x 245mm (14½ x 9¾").
Head and shoulders portrait of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931).
[Ref: 61396] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Hudson Bay] Carte des Parties du Nord-Ouest de l'Amerique Suivant les Voyages de Middleton et d'Ellis en 1742 et 1746. Pour chercher un Passage dans la Mer du Sud.
Par M. B. [Bellin] Ing. de la Marine 1753.
[Paris: Didot Libraire, c.1753.]
Engraved map, 18th century watermark. 230 x 290mm (9 x 11½"), large margins. Folded as issued.
A map of the northern part of Hudson Bay, recording the voyages of Christopher Middleton and Henry Ellis in search of the North West Passage. Published in Prevost's 'Histoire Generale des Voyages'.
[Ref: 61381] £230.00

[Bothians] Nimna Himna. called by the Men Old Greedy
On Stone by J. Brandard, from the original Drawing by Captain Ross [c.1835]
[London: A. W. Webster, 156 Regent Street, 1835.]
Lithograph, with hand colour. Sheet 235 x 185mm (9¼ x 7¼")
A woman from the Boothia Peninsula, Nunavut, Canada, described by John Ross in his 'Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage' (1835), from which this print originates. In his narrative, Ross writes that Nimna Himna 'was a constant visitor to the ship, and generally carried off something which she had picked up. On one occasion, when coming up the ladder, she was tumbled off by the surgeon, and falling on her back, pretended to faint; from which, although all the doctor could do could not recover her, she was restored by the offer of an empty tin case, which had contained preserved meat: a stratagem which she subsequently tried more than once without success. She was about sixty years of age, five feet two inches high, extremely ill-looking, and decidedly the most disgusting of the whole tribe'. Ross was forced by ice to stop at the Boothia peninsula (which he named after his patron Sir Felix Booth) for four years while searching for the north-west passage.
[Ref: 61717] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Habit of an Ottawa an Indian Nation of North America. Indien de la Nation Ottawa dans L'Amerique septentrional.
[Thomas Jefferys, n.d., c.1757.]
Hand coloured engraving. Sheet 250 x 200mm (9¾ x 8"). Trimmed within plate, slightly messy.
A full-length portrait of an Odawa warrior, with bow and arrow. Plate 197 from 'Collection of the dresses of different nations, antient [sic] and modern. Particularly old English dresses; after the designs of Holbein, Vandyke, Hollar and others, with an account of the authorities from which the figures are taken, and some short historical remarks on the subject. To which are added the habits of the principal characters on the English stage', published by Thomas Jefferys between 1757 - 1772.
[Ref: 61400] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View in the Island of Saint Christopher In The Parish of Nicola Town. Proof.
Drawn by J. Johnson. Engraved by T. Fielding.
[London Published Feb. 1. 1827 by T. & G. Underwood, Fleet Street.]
Fine aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Framed, sight size 300 x 435mm (11¾ x 17"). Hand colour faded, framed over publication line? Unexamined out of frame.
A rare view of slaves at work in the cane fields of the Eastridge Estate on the north east side of St Christopher's, with a windmill and mountains behind. From the series 'Views of the West Indies', which was proposed to be five parts. The first two parts were published by the Underwoods in 1827, with a third by Smith & Elder in 1829, before the series was wound up. A map of Antigua and 11 plates were issued.
Abbey: 678, ''a pity, for these plates were excellent''.
[Ref: 61568] £520.00

United States Capitol.
Engraved upon Steel by C.E. Loven. From a Photograph of the Drawings by T. U. Walter, Architect, Washington D.C.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by A.J. Johnson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Steel engraving, sheet 320 x 460mm (12½ x 18"). Trimmed within plate. Repaired Tears. Crease left corner.
A view of the Capitol Building, the seat of the United States Congress, in Washington D.C. Pedestrians, a man on a horse and a carriage all pass by outside. Thomas Ustick Walter (1804–87) was an American architect of German descent who was the fourth Architect of the Capitol and responsible for adding the north (Senate) and south (House) wings and the central dome.
[Ref: 61498] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

A Chart of y.e West-Indies or the Islands of America in the North Sea &c.
By H. Moll Geographer.
[n.d., 1720.]
Engraved map. 285 x 350mm (11¼ x 13¾"). Original binding folds.
A sea chart of the Gulf of Mexico and West Indies, with the eastern coast of North America north to Charleston. It still marks 'New Caledonia', the ill-fated Scottish colony on the Darien Isthmus. From Josiah Burchett's 'A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the Earliest Account... to the Conclusion of the Last War with France''.
[Ref: 61704] £550.00

[A Youth rescued from A Shark. This representation is founded on the following Fact: a Youth bathing in the Harbour of the Havannah, was twice seized by a Shark, from which, (though with the Loss of the Flesh & Foot, torn from the Right Leg,) He disentangled himself, & was by the assistance of a Boat's crew, sav'd from the Jaws of the voracious Animal: for in the Moment it was attempting to seize it's Prey, (a Third Time,) a Sailor with a Boat Hook, drow it from it's pursuit.]
[after John Singleton Copley.]
[n.d., c.1779.]
Mezzotint with etching, proof before letters. 370 x 425mm (14½ x 16¾"). A very fine impression on 18th century watermarked paper. Narrow margins top and bottom. Long crease from top middle diagonally down towards the left. Laid on album paper.
A reversed copy of Copley's painting, 'Watson and the Shark' as engraved by Valentine Green and published in 1779, with the added vignette of Neptune riding a seahorse and the title repeated in French. The scene depicts the shark attack on Sir Brook Watson, 1st Baronet (1735-1807) as a boy that resulted in the loss of his right leg below the knee. This happened when he was swimming alone in Havana harbour, Cuba, in 1749. Watson was a British merchant, soldier, and later Lord Mayor of London. Watson and the artist John Singleton Copley met in 1774: some say they travelled on the same ship from Boston to England, and some that they met in London. Whatever the circumstances of their meeting, Watson commissioned Copley to produce the work, known as Watson and the Shark which was completed in 1778. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1778 and caused a sensation. Upon Watson wife's death the painting was bequeathed to Christ's hospital which was accepted in 1819, however was purchased by the National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C in 1963.
See Australian National Maritime Museum 00036375 for the published state. See also [Ref: 64744].
[Ref: 61720] £2,000.00

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